For BreakThrough News’ The Socialist Program Economist Richard Wolff cuts through the noise to explain what the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump’s tariffs really means — not just for the administration, but for an already‑shaken U.S. economy. Long before the Court declared the tariffs unconstitutional, Wolff argues, the policy had already collapsed under its own contradictions: uncertainty, job losses, and a manufacturing sector that continued to shrink despite promises of revival. Now, with refunds looming, a ballooning war budget, and the political fallout of imposing what Wolff bluntly calls “a tax on the American people,” the ruling exposes a deeper truth he says Washington refuses to face: this is what a declining empire looks like.
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